The National Rally is continuing its controversies, less than fifty days before the Europeans, around certain personalities who should make up its list. Matthieu Valet, a former police commissioner sanctioned by his hierarchy, Saidali Hamissi, a Mahorais accustomed to excesses on social networks and, latest revelation to date: number 3 on the list Fabrice Leggeri, former boss of the Frontex agency, responsible for from the borders of the European Union, targeted by a complaint for complicity in crimes against humanity.
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Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella took only a few minutes, Tuesday evening April 23, to react on social networks, to the information of our colleagues from Franceinfo and the newspaper The world. Fabrice Leggerithird on the RN list, is the target of a complaint from the Human Rights League and the Utopia 56 association, for complicity in crimes against humanity and torture.
The two NGOs criticize the former boss of Frontex, the European agency responsible for border control, of having facilitated illegal pushbacks of migrant boats at sea. The LDH and Utopia 56 rely in particular on press articles, NGO reports and, in particular, on a report from the European Anti-Fraud Office (Olaf)which caused the resignation of Fabrice Leggeri, in April 2022.
The two leaders of the party with the flame immediately denounced legal harassment orchestrated by two “extreme left” associations and the party executives united to defend their war claim.
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Commissioner Matthieu Valet sanctioned by his hierarchy
But that’s not the only rock in Jordan Bardella’s shoe. The newspaper Release scrutinized the journey of Matthieu Valet, seventh on the list, and Mahorais Saidali Hamissi expected to be in an ineligible position. The first, a former police commissioner, was sanctioned by his hierarchy in 2022 for having embezzled SNCF vouchers belonging to colleagues. The police officer also allegedly had an accident with a service vehicle during a day off. Matthieu Valet, who received a reprimand for the first affair, finally took leave from the national police to join the RN.
As for Saidali Hamissi, delegate of the National Rally in Mayotte, in recent years he has made racist, misogynistic and conspiratorial remarks on social networks, as RFI was able to observe, verifying information from Release.
This Wednesday morning, with our colleagues at BFMTV, MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy announced that the RN had opened an investigation and that the Mahorais would not appear on the list if his statements were “proven”. This Wednesday noon, the RN confirms that Saidali Hamissi will ultimately not be on the said list. For a party that does everything to appear exemplary, that was starting to do a lot.